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15 Cards in this Set
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Accolade
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any award, honor, or laudatory notice
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Conclave
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a private gathering, convention
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Dirge
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a slow mournful pice of music, funeral music.
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Draconian
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cruel, severe
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Epicurean
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a person with sensitive to taste of food and drinking. Fond of or adapted to luxury or indulgence in sensual pleasures; having luxurious tastes or habits, esp. in eating and drinking.
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Gossamer
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a fine, filmy cobweb seen on grass or bushes or floating in the air in calm weather. Something light.
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Immolate
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to kill as a sacrificial victim, as by fire; offer in sacrifice.
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Juggernaut
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any large, overpowering, destructive force or object, as war, a giant battleship, or a powerful football team.
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Junket
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a trip, as by an official or legislative committee, paid out of public funds and ostensibly to obtain information.
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Ostracism
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exclusion, by general consent, from social acceptance, privileges, friendship, etc.
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Proletariat
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working class
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Rigmarole
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confused or senseless talk
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Rubric
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a rule especially for conduct of a social service
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Socratic
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any of the Greek philosophers influenced by Socrates
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Sycophant
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a servile flatterer ( Mr.Collins)
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